OSKOSH, WIS. Computer-based instruction aimed at the fledgling private pilot is scheduled to become available in the spring of 1998. Cessna Aircraft Co., at the EAA’s 45th annual convention, outlined its plan to bring CBI to the entry-level pilot via its 350 Cessna Pilot Training Centers in the U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO While billion-dollar cluster satellites capture the industry’s imagination, the day of the national or regional system is hardly over. In the vast expanse from India to Oceana, big and small Asia-Pacific nations are using satellites to help them gain the kind of communications infrastructure that the West takes for granted.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. Three-dimensional computerized terrain models developed by the NASA Ames Research Center's In telligent Mechanisms Group have played a major supporting role for Pathfinder sci entists in their study of the Ares Vallis flood plain on Mars.